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Planted

almost 14 years ago 2013-01-15

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Santa Clarita, CA New

Daily high and low
Too hot and too cold for apple so farFrom Jan 15 to Oct 29, 125 of 288 days had a high inside the best range of 14–27°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -2°C on 4 days. The highs were below the best range on 15 days and above the best range on 148 days. The weather was too hot on 43 days (highs above 33°C) and too cold on 74 days (lows below 8°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -2 °CGrows at 8–33°Grows best 14–27°
Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on October 29, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
83 mm
Hottest day
40.6°C
Coldest night
-2.4°C
Soil temperature
22.9°C
Days in its best range
125 of 288
Days
288

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

UPDATE: The rootstock lives! I can't believe it recovered because when the tree died I stopped watering. It put out a very vigorous shoot, and I intend to either let it grow as a crabapple tree, or re-graft. It also put out a sucker, which I planted in a pot and it rooted.

UPDATE: Died to the rootstock during the hot spell last year.

EDIT: Fair number of blooms this year (2014). Doubt I'll get fruit this year though nothing's impossible. Two of the grafts seem to have died, but the other three are looking good.

Not actually sure the exact planting date, sometime in January. Part of the new orchard! Apple "fruit salad" tree. It leafed out and has had 1 bloom (of course I don't expect fruit this year). I'm trying to decide, should I fertilize this year or wait until next year? I did mulch with compost/aged manure.

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    Planted

Frost may have reached this apple planting

24 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -2.4 °C.

This apple planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-2.4 °C
4.4 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
92 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 16 Apr
Usual last frost
25 Mar
planted 69 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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Crop

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Apple

Malus domestica

  • 46 plantings
  • 7 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 2050 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

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